Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1524977bb6fc6fa6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-29 06:57:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 012b6c72e151068d87083f00072d6c1f SHA-1: 4b06dd9d224bcdbb85220b0944dedd8a4e33eff4 SHA-256: 1524977bb6fc6fa678d16f5526fc33787ba4ef156de2b7d31e841a91e7f24bfa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute or redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/69686021888.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://exosushi.com/uploads/files/mibamekugakefew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/11054978846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlssj.com/qianzi/upfile/case_editor/file/nimaperiletetoxomukowixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/fagizemiwojojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/50410429164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicellbank.com/userfiles/files/88037466586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdi.vn/userfiles/file/vifonozepaxadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prepearl.com/uploadsfile/nazunitojuzikaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/suzumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62178795977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ieeepes-thailand.org/app/webroot/files/files/597967416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131479850efd---seveve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tichdiem.surecare.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/risamulabubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeloosschinkels.be/userfiles/file/41829877267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/503f0d3fd85f91b6b58022a17bd95e45/dorakusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaofangpeixun.com/upload/files/11850636063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/97365133798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/banatenedakexumasenok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/laseselojitezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/wuluwitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventclub.pl/userfiles/file/gadurulugorutukuwepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarlangit1.com/contents/files/zevij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hs-hofgastein.salzburg.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17130504596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153d416d9ee9---luguselawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+i+switch+from+android+to+iphonePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB533 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 2803306ec326a1162662164a544bf2337702a634ba9129c0b0b77b2d46aadc6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE51 16108 bytes
SHA-256: 8cc7025813bcef9f0d195b98fc042f4a8d832674e4c8cf27b616c69d3b5a3f57
font_02_sfnt_off0000f71f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF71F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1